Characters in Postern of Fate

Supporting characters

• Tommy Beresford

  Steadier and more cautious than his wife, he works the case through old intelligence contacts while worrying for her safety.

  Also in The Secret Adversary, Partners in Crime, N or M?, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, A Pot of Tea: A Short Story, Blindman's Buff: A Short Story, Finessing the King, The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger: A Short Story, The Affair of the Pink Pearl, The Ambassador's Boots: A Short Story

• Albert

  A long-serving widower who cooks, keeps house, and remains fiercely loyal, stepping in at a critical moment.

  Also in Partners in Crime

• Hannibal

  Intensely protective of his owners, he is given his own point-of-view passages and plays a decisive part in the danger that follows.

• Mary Jordan

  An au-pair who died in the house years before and was rumoured to have been an enemy agent; the coded message insists her death was not natural.

• Colonel Pikeaway

  A recurring Christie spymaster who connects the village's past to wider matters of national security.

• Mr Robinson

  The large, yellow-faced financier-cum-operative from earlier Christie novels, working quietly behind the scenes.

• Tuppence Cowley

  Curious and irrepressible even in old age, she treats the buried mystery as a puzzle worth chasing for its own sake.

  Also in The Secret Adversary, Partners in Crime, N or M?, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, A Pot of Tea: A Short Story, Blindman's Buff: A Short Story, Finessing the King, The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger: A Short Story, The Affair of the Pink Pearl, The Ambassador's Boots: A Short Story

• Isaac Bodlicott

  A talkative old villager whose memories of the past prove more dangerous than they first seem.

• Alexander Parkinson